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MOUNDScj)WUMVIEW 2401 Mounds View Boulevard * Mounds View MN 55112-1499 Phone: 763 — 717-4000 * Fax 763-717-4019 September 29, 2023 Document Transmitted to Bob King via EMAIL and USPS Bob King and Committee of Petitioners bobking3600@gmail.com 7408 Silver Lake Road Mounds View, MN 55112 RE. Petition to Amend City Charter - Technical Revisions Required Petition considered INSUFFICIENT Mr. King and Committee of Petitioners: Your petition to amend the Mounds View City Charter (the "Petition") is found to be insufficient and this letter constitutes the certificate of insufficiency. The petition has 281 signature lines filled out. After verification, 24 signatures were eliminated (see attached documentation for eliminations), leaving 253 signatures from registered voters. The number of signatures required for a sufficient petition consisting of signatures equal in number to 5% of the total votes cast in the last general election in the City is 253. As outlined in this letter, there are technical issues on the Petition needing to be addressed. Please send any clarifying questions to rayla.ewald@moundsviewmn.org. You or any member of the Committee of Petitioners may contact me at 763-717-4016 to schedule a time to view the Elections Copy of Mounds View Registered Voters roster used to verify petition signatures. Additionally, all but one of the deficiencies would have been addressed if the Committee of Petitioners would have used the sample petition request by and provided to Committee of Petitioners member Mr. Aaron Pratt on July 25, 2023. For future petitions, I encourage you to use the sample petition since it meets the formatting requirements and provides space for all of the necessary information a petition must include, in the proper location. Courts have determined that cities should use restraint when determining that petitions are deficient based solely on technical requirements. Therefore, given the overall format of this particular petition, the City is not requiring correction of the following technical deficiencies for this submitted Petition: 1) Minn. R. Part 8205. 10 10 (G) requires the statement "All information must be filled in by person(s) signing the petition unless disability prevents the person(s) from doing so" be immediately before the signature lines. The Petition includes an additional statement between the required statement and the signature lines which undermines the purpose of the required statement, to clearly associate the required statement with the signature lines. 2) In the future, please sequentially number all pages submitted (e.g., 1/31, 2/31, etc.) and run a continuous number system for all signatures (e.g., pages one contains signatures "1-10" page 2 contains 11-20, etc.). If you choose to submit a supplementary petition and correct the issues with the Petition as described below, you will not be required to fix the two issues identified above. However, in the future, please follow the provided sample petition format more closely. The City encourages you to consult an attorney to determine whether the petition meets the technical requirements on Minnesota Statues, section 410.12 and Minnesota Rules, part 8205. www.moundsviewrnmor� The Mounds View Vision A Thriving Desirable Community